chapter 10

Marabella Eighteen-years-old Having a wolf is so much more than I ever expected. I never realized how empty I was until Kora came into my life. How much I craved interaction, someone to fill the void that resided inside me for so long. Not realizing how lonely one's mind could truly be. Then she came along. Kora can’t stop the pain, but she keeps me tipping over the edge, over the precipice and into the dark void of nothingness that is me. She keeps bringing me back even when I wish she wouldn’t. Even at times I wish she would give up on me the same everyone else already has. And yet, I am beyond thankful that I have her. I don't even want to think back to a time before I had her. That deep, dark emptiness I lived with for so long always makes me fear its return. “Up Marabella, we can’t sit here all day,” Kora murmurs in my head. I feel like a passenger in my body these days. Something is off. More so than usual, like my soul is searching for something. My days are lived on autopilot,